La-La Land and Intrada are reaching into their archives for a pair of new releases out this month.
Coming from La-La Land is the fourth entry of Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection, a series of six volumes drawn from 2012's box set of music from the iconic television show. This 2CD set features music from seven episodes released in 1968 and 1969, as scored by original series theme composer Alexander Courage, along with music by Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried and Ivan Ditmars. As with previous volumes, the audio is identical to what's heard in that original box set (produced for release by Lukas Kendall, Neil S. Bulk and Jeff Bond; restored by Chris Malone and mastered by Doug Schwartz), and features expanded liner notes by Bond and newly-designed packaging by Dan Goldwasser. And it's of course limited to 1701 copies apiece! (The label has also placed all their other Trek titles on sale through February 29 - check out their store for more info.)
And from Intrada comes a classic score from Jerry Goldsmith, presented by the label for...the fourth time. What? That's right, it's a new remaster of Inchon, the score he wrote for Terence Howard's 1981 dramatization of a pivotal battle of the Korean War. The film - starring Laurence Olivier as General Douglas MacArthur, with supporting turns by Toshiro Mifune and Richard Roundtree - was notable for its troubled production (underwritten by Sun Myung Moon of the Unification Church) and catastrophic box office performance. Even Goldsmith (who'd previously scored a different MacArthur biopic with Gregory Peck in the lead role) wasn't spared from difficulty: recording in Rome, the studio could not fit the orchestra and suffered from technical problems that marred the performance with ambient noise.
Still, Goldsmith described his work as "interesting music out of a bad situation," and assembled a tight LP experience released by the Regency label in 1982, a year after the film's premiere. That's where Intrada comes in: the label expanded and remixed that original album to nearly an hour's worth of listening in 1988, and presented a 2CD edition (offering the original LP and a slightly expanded score assembly) not once but twice, in 2006 and 2013. A third edition, released in 2020, offered those two discs alongside a third fully chronological and unedited sequence that allowed every cue to be heard without being edited into each other, as Goldsmith had done. This fourth version offers nearly the same sequence - but instead of sourcing from the 1" eight-track and 1/2" three-channel film mixes of previous releases, Intrada's created a new presenation from 1/4" safety tapes intended as back-ups that ultimately offered a fuller stereo presentation than what's been heard previously. (A small handful of early takes have been unearthed in the process, as well.)
Both scores are available to order now at the links below.
Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried, Alexander Courage and Ivan Ditmars, Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection Volume Four (La-La Land Records LLLCD 1639, 2024 - original episodes broadcast 1968-1969)
All tracks previously released on La-La Land Records box set LLLCD-1701, 2012
* Contains "Theme from Star Trek (TV Series)" by Alexander Courage and Gene Roddenberry
Disc 1
- Main Title/End Title* (3rd Season, Soprano Version, Stereo - arr. Alexander Courage, cond. Wilbur Hatch)
- Melkots' Warning*/ Hailing Frequencies* M11/M12
- It is Done! M14
- Tombstone M15-20
- The Clantons Lost/Death is Real!/Tack Piano (Weird) M21/M22/M23
- Good Morning Gents/Draw Clanton M31/M32
- Taos Lightning/Teeth Pulling M33/M34
- My Name--Doc Holliday/Love Scene in Old West/Chekov Gets Killed M35-40/M41/M42
- Not Yet Our Time M44
- One Other Place/Any Way You Can/Ten Minutes M51/M52/M53
- We're Trapped/Shoot Out, Part 1 M54/M55-60
- Shoot Out, Part 2/Kirk Wins! M55-60/M61/M61A
- It's Gone Sir M62
- No Title/Final Curtain* M63+M63B/M63A
- Pine Trees/The Amerikinds/Tahiti Syndrome/The Brain Wash M11/M12/M13/M14
- Episode Title/Puzzled Kirk/Miramanee/Maximum Warp*/Engine Strain M21/M22/M23/M24/M25
- Bad Memory*/Breath of Life*/The New God/Deflection M26/M27/M27A/M28-30
- Asteroid/Dilithium M31/M31A
- Washday/Salish Fluffed/Potter Kirk/Naming the God/Target* M32/M33/M34/M35/M36
- Lazy Lazer/Joining Day M37/M38-40
- Meditating Spock/Wedding Dress/Challenge M41/M42/M42A
- The Fight/The Ceremony/Listless Spock/Spock Cheats Doctor/Forest Montage/Troubling Dreams/Mud Map M43/M43A/M45/M46/M47-50/M47-50A/M47-50B/M50A
- Forever Cooking/Wind/False God M51/M52/M53
- Check-Up/Death to a False God/Mind Fusion M54/M55/M61
- Back to Reality/The Right Words/Wounded Girl M62/M62A/M62B
- The Right Button/Death of Miramanee/End M63/M64+M64A/M65
- Pseudo Brahms Esq. M26/M26A
- Pseudo Brahms Esq. (alternate ending) M26
Disc 2
- Main Title* (3rd Season, Soprano Version, Mono - arr. Alexander Courage, cond. Wilbur Hatch)
- Aberrated Captain* M11
- Surrounded/Temper, Temper M12/M13
- Unfair Exchange M14-20+M14-20B
- Vulcanian Cahoots M21
- Hemmed In/Vulcanization M22/M31
- Konked Kirk M32
- Vulcanized M33
- Kirk Rekirked M41
- Back from Dead/Commandeered M42/M43-50
- Back to Business M51
- Stolen Device M52
- Reworked*/Deposition/Sweaty Scotty M53/M54/M55-60
- Free Enterprise* M61
- Ear Bob* M62
- Giant Dwarf* M11
- Meet the Folks/Soaring Syringe M12/M13
- Episode Titles M14
- Delirium Parmen's* M15-20
- Reluctant Guests/Psychokinetic Effect M21/M21A
- The Frog (Alexander's Song) (vocal: Michael Dunn) M22A
- Slap Unhappy M23
- Cut Off/I Hear You Calling M24/M25+M25A
- Psychokinetic Shenanigans/Stopped Cold M26/M31
- Groveling Kirk M32+M32A
- Dancing Spock M33
- Spock Brought/New Talent M41/M51
- The Aristocrats/Flung About M52/M53
- Orgy Porgy M55-60
- Brain Bout M61
- The Little Visitor* M62
- Arab Hootch Dance (Hootchie Kootchie) LM133
- Beam-In Sweetener M6
- Looking for a New Land (vocal: Charles Napier) MV1
- Like Hail (vocal: Charles Napier) MV3
- Hey, Out There! (vocals: Charles Napier and Deborah Downey) MV2
- Far Out Jam (William Pitman) M8/MV5A
- Headin' Out to Eden (vocal: Charles Napier) MV4
- Headin' Out to Eden (instrumental tags) M7A tk. 2, 1
- End Title* (3rd Season, Soprano Version, Mono - arr. Alexander Courage, cond. Wilbur Hatch)
Disc 1, Tracks 2-14 composed and conducted by Jerry Fielding, from "Spectre of the Gun"; Episode #56, rec. 7/5/1968 / aired #61, 10/25/1968
Disc 1, Tracks 15-26 composed and conducted by Gerald Fried, from "The Paradise Syndrome"; Episode #58, rec. 7/19/1968 / aired #58, 10/4/1968
Disc 1, Tracks 27-28 composed and conducted by Ivan Ditmars (Johannes Brahms paraphrase), from "Requiem for Methuselah"; Episode #76, rec. 1/15/1969 / aired #74, 2/14/1969
Disc 2, Tracks 2-15 composed and conducted by Alexander Courage, from "The Enterprise Incident"; Episode #59, rec. 8/5/1968 / aired #57, 9/27/1968
Disc 2, Tracks 16-31 composed and conducted by Alexander Courage, from "Plato's Stepchildren"; Episode #67, rec. 10/25/1968 / aired #65, 11/22/1968
Disc 2, Track 32 composed and conducted by Alexander Courage, from "Whom Gods Destroy"; Episode #71, rec. 10/25/1968 (with "Plato's Stepchildren") / aired #69, 1/3/1969
Disc 2, Tracks 33-39 written by Arthur Heinemann, Charles Napier and Craig Robertson / music director: Wilbur Hatch, from "The Way to Eden"; Episode #75, rec. 11/20/1968 / aired #75, 2/21/1969
Jerry Goldsmith, Inchon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 2024 Remaster) (Intrada ISC 501, 2024 - original film released 1981)
Disc 1: Original soundtrack LP (released as Regency International LP RI-8502, 1982)
- Main Title
- Resignation
- The Bridge
- The Church
- The Mines
- Task Force
- Medley
- Love Theme
- The Tanks
- Lim's Death
- The Trucks
- Inchon Theme
Disc 2: Score assembly (originally released on Intrada ISC 35, 2006; reissued Intrada MAF-7125, 2013)
- Prologue and Main Title
- The Bridge
- The 38th Parallel
- Medley
- Love Theme
- The Aftermath *
- The Tanks
- A Change of Course *
- The Church
- MacArthur's Arrival
- The Harbor
- The Trucks
- Corpses
- The Children
- The Apology
- The Lighthouse
- The Clock Watcher *
- The Mines
- Resignation
- The Landing
- Lim's Death
- The Scroll *
- Task Force
- Inchon Theme
* first released on Intrada CD FMT-8002D, 1988
Disc 3: Complete score in sequence (originally released on Intrada ISC 452, 2020)
- Prologue
- Main Title
- The Bridge
- The 38th Parallel
- MacArthur
- The Aftermath
- The Tragedy
- Tanks Arrive
- A Change of Course
- The Church
- MacArthur's Arrival
- The Harbor
- The Tanks
- The Trucks
- Lim and the Children
- Corpses
- The Pledge
- The Children (Original)
- The Apology
- The Clock Watcher
- The Lighthouse
- The Ships
- The Mines
- Resignation
- The Landing
- Lim's Death
- The Scroll
- Task Force (Revised)
- Inchon Theme
- Love Theme (Album Version)
- The Children (Revised)
- The Ships (Alternate)
- The Bridge (Early Take)
- The Pledge (Early Take)
- The Trucks (Early Take)
- Task Force (Original)
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